As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination. — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
“Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Your one bad deed is louder compared to 100 good deeds done in the past” — Daniel ANIKOR Copy Share Image
He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey… — Joseph Mitchell Copy Share Image
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands . — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
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